Air & Aerospace

The Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress was the blunt-force instrument of the Allied daylight strategic bombing campaign over Europe. Tasked with...

The United States Navy has officially awarded Boeing a development contract valued at over $20 billion for the full-scale engineering...

KEY INTELLIGENCE Airframe Relocation: Tail number 844, the final SR-71 constructed and last to fly on October 9, 1999 (Mach...

BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT Advanced Fire Control: The Sperry K-4 automatic computing gunsight calculated gravity, wind speed, aircraft velocity, and...

KEY INTELLIGENCE The AGM-181A LRSO replaces the AGM-86B, a system that originally entered active service in 1982. Raytheon leads missile...

KEY INTELLIGENCE Danish Intelligence Assessment: The Danish Defense Intelligence Service warns Russia perceives a closing "window of opportunity" before Europe...

KEY INTELLIGENCE Unmanned systems suffered catastrophic attrition, with 47 MQ-9 Reapers and one MQ-4C Triton lost to enemy fire and...

BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT The Gun With a Plane: The 3,900-pound GAU-8/A cannon accounts for 20% of the aircraft's empty...

KEY INTELLIGENCE The airframe supports an unprecedented 29,500 lbs of munitions distributed across 23 weapon hardpoints. Twin F110-GE-129 turbofans generate...

First Manned Down: Houthi air defense units downed a Royal Saudi Air Force F-15 combat aircraft over northern Yemen using...